[Qt5-feedback] Coarse timers

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Fri Jun 3 17:53:50 CEST 2011


On Friday, 3 de June de 2011 20:03:51 Kishore wrote:
> There was a blog post once about making QTimer more efficient by making it
> coarser somewhat shared between instances. What are the plans for this?

It's still in my branch. I haven't had the time to polish it and publish.

> IMHO, most common applications do not require even the kind of precision
> that QTimer currently offers (but does not guarantee). If necessary another
> specialized class could be provided for precision.
> 
> It would allow us to create applications with several timers but not worry
> about waking up the CPU more often than necessary.
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